Jenny Blake is best known for her blog and book Life After College, which helps 20-somethings do bold things and find direction during a critical phase of life. But Jenny is much more than the author of Life After College. She's a highly paid speaker, a career coach and an NYC yoga instructor. Jenny gave up a highly visible career at Google to do her own thing and follow a lifelong dream of leading and speaking.
Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerd Fitness, a massively successful online community which helps desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives. In this founder story Steve shares how he got started, calling out the most important pieces of his journey from depressed corporate drone to the vibrant, charming and nerdy independent entrepreneur he is today.
Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, a start-up based in San Francisco that is making accepting payments as simple and easy as possible. (Watch out Paypal.) In this founder story find out why he left Pinterest (when he was employee #2) right when it was gaining popularity to start Gumroad.
Betsy and Warren Talbot are a recovering 40-something Type-A couple who spent their 20s and 30s climbing the corporate ladder only to realize it wasn't the ladder they wanted to be climbing. In October, 2010, just shy of their 40th birthdays, the couple sold everything they owned and left their lives behind to see the world. They're still traveling today.
Affiliate marketing can be an extremely powerful & profitable strategy for your business. In this special Fizzle course Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income breaks down his strategy for affiliate marketing.
Jason is the founder of a bunch of online businesses. Most of them he’s sold. All of them have been small and fun. His most recent business is Paleo Plan, which we talk a lot about in this interview because it’s such a great example of the small, focused, simple online business.
Brett Kelly is creator of Evernote Essentials, the most popular third-party guide to the Evernote software platform. He's also co-founder of LifeRemix, one of the most influential blogger networks of the past decade.
Nathan Barry is an experience designer for both the web and iOS apps. He also recently published The App Design Handbook, a guide to designing beautiful iOS applications. In this interview Nathan explains why he left college early to freelance, how working at a startup in Boise took him from being a designer to being an iOS programmer, and how he successfully grossed $12,000 in one day of eBook sales with less than a thousand subscribers to his blog.
Barron Cuadro is founder of Effortless Gent, a top men's style blog. He's also one half of Fifth&Brannan, a new men's fashion label based in San Francisco. In this interview, Barron shares how he built Effortless Gent into a popular blog and business that attracts over 50k unique visitors per month. We find out how Barron launched his first E-Book through the site, and how he and his partner Katie started Fifth&Brannan with a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.
If you haven't defined your audience you're, at best, leaving money on the table and, at worst, too clueless/blind/self-centered to create and land something valuable to others. In this course Chase shares why it's so important to define and understand your audience as well as how to do the digging, thinking and insighting (sp?) so you're able to create, serve and sell to your audience.